marcescent

From Latin marcescens, present participle of marcescere.

marcescent (not comparable)

1. (botany, of an organ such as a leaf or blossom; rarely also figurative) Withered, but still attached.
   • a. 1893, Edith M. Thomas, The Undertime of the Year, published in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 72 (October 1893), page 452:

     How often is the flower of human life marcescent, tenacious of its old estate when the blooming-time is past.

   • 1990, Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, page 75:

     “But,” she answered, “granting that Mon Cul is a remarkable creature, that he is the elder statesman among monkeys, that his marcescent eyelids have opened upon sights and splendors about which the most romantic among us only dream, […] ”

2. (mycology) Able to revive when moistened.

• scarcement

Borrowed from Latin marcēscentem (“wasting”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mər.səˈsen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [mər.səˈsent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maɾ.seˈsent]
• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

marcescent m or f (masculine and feminine plural marcescents)

1. (botany) marcescent

• “marcescent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin marcēscentem.

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marcescent (feminine marcescente, masculine plural marcescents, feminine plural marcescentes)

1. marcescent

• “marcescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

marcēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of marcēscō

Borrowed from French marcescent.

marcescent m or n (feminine singular marcescentă, masculine plural marcescenți, feminine and neuter plural marcescente)

1. marcescent